GLG News by RFID Semiconductor Experts

As technology goes, so goes WIMAX... * Broadband devices will become faster, better, cheaper and smaller. * Consumer thrist for immediate communications anywhere, anytime will not abate. * GSM speeds cannot keep up with even today's consumer expectations for instant gratification. * New Value Added...

The equipment, semiconductor market for WiMax. Software, services and applications on WiMax

Truck sales are slow with no signs of any significant bump coming. In 2006, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) announced a $300MM investment in a new plant in Saltillo, Mexico to build 30,000 Freightliner and Sterling trucks annually starting operations in 2009. Union leaders in Canada are understandably...

Commodity price increases with manufacturers are like fuel surcharges for freight carriers. They need to be passed on to maintain profitability. There are ways to do it - if the marketplace, timing, positioning, sales approach, etc. allow for it. It looks good for Navistar to be successful in doing...

Whilst the US has seen an explosion in Mobile Banking it is yet to see the users trust the service for Payments. Payments needs to address not just the Banked but the Unbanked, in Africa Vodafone and MTN have  established services that allow micropayments to be made to those that have no Bank Accounts. ...

The Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) versus Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) approaches have already been previously written about - including from me last week. The referenced article shows us one coming approach that may replace the need for urea (ammonia) in SCR applications. More SCR options are...

The market is still fragmented. In the big five we still see a wide spread of take up as consumers are yet to be won over. The mobile networks are still to discover a range of products that make the investment pay off. This talks about terminals rather than handsets and so a slowing of sales of phones...

The referenced article explains better than most on how Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) can work in 2010 through emissions’ credit averaging, banking and trading. Several of us in the past in these missives have addressed this. One can’t technically get to 2010 levels on individual engines with EGR...

Bertrand Cambou, CEO of Spansion, has an opinion on Numonyx' push into phase-change memories: "Phase-change memory is pure marketing fluff." Although Cambou is correct that existing Numonyx phase change memories are not ready for prime time, the situation will be quite different below 32nm, which...

While MasterCard arguably will pay American Express too much, the settlement removes a troubling overhang.   It is time for MasterCard and Visa Inc. to focus their energies on fending off a potentially far more damaging threat: the “Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008.”